Scantily clad Femen "nurses" offer to vaccinate the French against fascism - personified, in their view, by French far-right leader Marine Le Pen - in Henin-Beaumont, France. Unfortunately for Femen, the vaccination program didn't catch on with voters, who handed Le Pen's National Front party an outright victory in parliament elections.

by Thailand's ruling junta against street protests, McDonald's Happy Meal mascot joins an anti-coup demonstration at a shopping mall in Bangkok. Fortunately - or unfortunately depending on your point of view - he was not thrown in the pokey with the Hamburglar.